Since you wont acknowledge a simple experiment because you are dishonest, here is a better one. https://www.metabunk.org/how-to-verify-that-the-sun-is-a-distant-sphere-with-binoculars-sunspots.t8646/
Also earth's curvature here: https://www.metabunk.org/views-of-toronto-from-hamilton-and-fort-niagara-illustrate-earths-curvature.t8149/
And this: https://www.metabunk.org/mirage/ so you can finally learn how a mirage works.
He said, "I go my ways,
And when I find a mountain-rill,
I set it in a blaze;
And thence they make a stuff they call
Rowland's Macassar Oil--
Yet twopence-halfpenny is all
They give me for my toil."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kf4p738j80